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Why we picked it Colonna is the VC-turned-coach founders actually trust on this, and here he tells it from the inside: after losing his all-defining job he found that the more the world applauded his doing, the more his soul ached, because there was no self left underneath the title. His answer, radical self-inquiry (Who is the person I have been all my life?), is the practical work of building identities the startup cannot touch. A first-hand account from a credible founder-coach, not theory.
Can You Really Bring Your Whole Self to Work? (Jerry Colonna)
On On Being by Jerry Colonna, interviewed by Krista Tippett 51 min listen (full transcript available)
- Colonna's own collapse came from having an all-defining job: when the world loved his doing, his soul ached because there was nothing underneath the doing
- Radical self-inquiry (Who is the person I have been all my life?) is how you find the self that exists independent of the company
- Denying your full humanity at work cuts you off from your own creativity, so an identity beyond the startup is not indulgence, it is fuel